The Beat

We've been engaged in a rewatching of The X-Files here at Stately Beat Manor for the last few months and wow, does it hold up.

As they did last year, the Study Group cartoonist have rolled out a whole week of seasonal comics including: The Gemini Three – Part 1...

No one is better than Charles Burns, and his unnamed trilogy—X'ed Out, The Hive and the new Sugar Skull—may be an even greater achievement...

Few comics are as suitable for Halloween reading as Robert Kirkman's Outcast, which opens with a gruesome, intense demonic possession, and continues with an exploration of a great central character,  Kyle Barnes, who has to deal with his own connection to possession and the demonic world. We all know Kirkman is a horror master, but Azaceta's art on the book is sleek and controlled, aided by top notch colors. The first collection of Outcast comes out in December.

This extraordinary book—surely one of the most beautiful picture books of the year— has a complicated history. It began with Mattotti's phenomenal illustrations, originally...

The long running The Last Halloween is an engrossing tale about a girl and some monsters.